[Greenbuilding] Abandoned mine turned into a pumped storage system...

[Gordon Howell -- Howell Mayhew Engineering]

Hello Rob:

I'd be interested in your comments about why you think it is a 
greenwashing scam.

Note that the headline says "5x the size", but the article says "5x 
the height"... its a big difference and then adds "though with a 
fraction of the volume".

+Gordon Howell, P.Eng.
Edmonton



Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:05:39 -0500
From: RT <archilogic at yahoo.ca>
Subject: [Greenbuilding] Greenwashing Mega-scam(s)

Don't ask me why 'cuz I don't know but the "CFL bulbs/mercury" thread 
made me think of a story I saw this week about an initiative to 
redevelop a former open pit mine (owned/operated by Bethlehem Steel, 
in Southeastern Ontario to turn it into a "storage battery five times 
the size of Niagara Falls".

http://tinyurl.com/a8u2gl4

My curiosity was piqued because I suspected that the site was one that our
geology class visited on a high school field trip in the previous
millennium. If you enter the co-ords into Google Maps and select the
satellite image option you should be able to get a pretty good idea

                       44.478442, -77.659006

This "storage battery from open pit mine hole" hasn't yet been implemented
but I wouldn't be surprised if it too is allowed to proceed.

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada